Network Working Group A. Houri
Request for Comments: 5344 IBM
Category: Informational E. Aoki
AOL LLC
S. Parameswar
Microsoft Corporation
October 2008
Presence and Instant Messaging Peering Use Cases
Status of This Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Abstract
This document describes several use cases of peering of non-VoIP
(Voice over IP) services between two or more Service Providers.
These Service Providers create a peering relationship between
themselves, thus enabling their users to collaborate with users on
the other Service Provider network. The target of this document is
to drive requirements for peering between domains that provide the
non-VoIP based collaboration services with presence and, in
particular, Instant Messaging (IM).
Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................2
2. Use Cases .......................................................2
2.1. Simple Interdomain Subscription ............................2
2.2. List Based Interdomain Subscription ........................3
2.3. Authorization Migration ....................................3
2.4. Pager Mode IM ..............................................4
2.5. Session Based IM ...........................................4
2.6. Other Services .............................................4
2.7. Federation and Clearing House ..............................5
3. Security Considerations .........................................5
4. Acknowledgments .................................................6
5. Informative References ..........................................6
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This document uses the terminology as defined in [1] unless otherwise
stated.
Real Time Collaboration (RTC) services have become as prevalent and
essential for users on the Internet as email. While RTC services can
be implemented directly by users in a point-to-point fashion, they
are often provided for, or on behalf of, a Peer Network of users
within an administrative domain. As the use of these services grows,
users increasingly have the need to communicate with users not only
within their own Peer Network but with those in other Peer Networks
as well (similar to the old Public Switched Telephony Network (PSTN)
that enabled global reachability). In practice, each Peer Network is
controlled by some domain, and so there is a need to provide for
easier establishment of connectivity between Peer Networks and for
the management of the relationships between the Peer Networks. This
document describes a set of use cases that describe how peering
between Peer Networks may be used in non-VoIP RTC services. The use
cases are intended to help in identifying and capturing requirements
that will guide and then enable a secure and easier peering between
Peer Networks that provide non-VoIP RTC services. The use cases for
the VoIP RTC services are described in [2].
Note that this document does not define requirements for a new
protocol or for protocol extensions. It captures the way that
presence and Instant Messaging are currently used within enterprises
and operator domains.
2. Use Cases2.1. Simple Interdomain Subscription
Assume two Peer Networks, Peer Network A and Peer Network B. User
Alice@example.com (hosted in Peer Network A) wants to subscribe to
user Bob@example.net (hosted in Peer Network B) and get his presence
information. In order to do so, Alice@example.com could connect
directly to example.net and subscribe to Bob's presence information.
However, Peer Network B is willing to accept subscriptions and route
IMs only when they are coming from its users or from other Peer
Networks that Peer Network B trusts.
In reality, what will happen is Peer Network A will connect to Peer
Network B and send Alice's subscription to Bob via Peer Network B.
When Peer Network B has new information on Bob, it will send
notifications to Peer Network A, which will pass them to Alice.
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